Him and their stars.

Chapter 2158 Little Gray, I have another plan.

"I see." The Emperor glanced at the other floating screen, watching the Sobyk fleet already arrayed and firing at the behemoth, and smiled knowingly. "Let me guess, your subordinates represent your will, pointing out their direction and strengthening their resolve. Is it Vice Admiral Ostana Bar?"

Brunhilde felt he didn't need to answer, so he simply smiled.

"Then, where is Giafil?" The Emperor closed his eyes slightly. "I can sense that she is in the Celestial Realm."

Brunhilde still didn't answer, but his smile had faded.

“Actually, you don’t need to be in such a hurry, Brin. When Sobek sees the appearance of Void Realm creatures in the Space City, he will prioritize protecting the people. This young man isn’t exactly a military genius, but he’s an even more remarkable talent. He can be put to great use!”

Brunhilde said, “Sir Sobek and his comrades are trustworthy, but I am less inclined to trust Duke Géribian. My distant cousin is a very shrewd person.”

"She is indeed a flexible person, and she has made a new choice. That's good, really good."

Emperor Elisher opened her eyes again, her gaze sweeping over the flowerbed and landing on Shirley. The illusory figure formed from spirit particles rippled slightly.

"As this little fellow said, to call it a pet is self-deception. I have glimpsed a new possibility. Thus, it is both a vessel and a bridge."

His gaze fell on Brunhilde, his eyes filled with undisguised admiration.

The client said that Brunhilde didn't like that look. The emperor looked at him more like he was admiring a masterpiece he had created himself.

"So, you've discovered that there are limits to being human? And that's why you decided to become a Void Realm Lord?" Brunhilde sneered.

“Breen, you’ve reached the threshold. You should understand that the accumulation of pure power has its limits.” The emperor met the gazes of each girl present, his tone like that of a patiently admonishing student.

"Now that you've all reached this level, you can learn from me and make some preparations in advance."

Yani said, "The splitting of the soul is very dangerous. Even at the ninth ring, there are many examples of people being devoured and dying."

“The history of the Rainbow Rose is even longer than that of the Empire, so your records are certainly true and reliable.” The Emperor frankly acknowledged the other party’s doubts: “But, it’s already at the ninth ring. Since the world calls the ninth ring the side of truth, then in order to continue to advance towards truth, isn’t it only natural to do whatever it takes?”

“That’s true.” Yani had to nod in agreement. And she also had to admit that if she reached that level, she would definitely be able to do quite a few amazing things as well.

Of course, this is in order to continue to expand the boundaries of knowledge and civilization.

The Emperor slightly raised his hand, pointing to the terrifying behemoth on the screen that was locked in battle with the Silent One and the Imperial Fleet: "It carries my will, fragments of my soul, and the dimensional lord's illusory nature capable of distorting reality. If she can truly devour that ancient ship from the Age of the Enlighteners, to what extent will she evolve?"

Feifei looked directly at the emperor: "Even without Master Lan's attack, even if your physical body had not been damaged, this scene would still have happened."

“Yes, I invited you here. You bravely chose to keep the invitation.” The Emperor’s gaze fell on Brunhilde’s face again: “However, I did not expect you to come to the Heavenly Realm with such determination, not to inherit my mantle, but to oppose me.”

Just then, on the screen beside him, the Silent One once again miraculously evaded another of the behemoth's pounce. All the gunfire on its broadside suddenly converged, transforming into silver spears that precisely pierced the behemoth's body, penetrating deep into the throbbing, dark red flesh through the holes and gaps in the armor.

It let out a painful roar, and the silent soul-shaking force spread throughout the entire galaxy.

Even the girls in the Dragon Palace, hundreds of millions of kilometers away, felt a sense of unease.

As they looked at the emperor, his spirit also experienced a violent fluctuation. Since the monster was one of the emperor's bodies, it was only natural that it would reflect the attack on his spirit.

However, the emperor showed no anger at all in the face of this scene. He quickly stabilized the ripples of his spirit and even gave the girls a joyful smile.

"Look! What a powerful fusion reaction!"

Is this supposed to be integration? Isn't this just you getting beaten up unilaterally? This kind of mental state is truly disturbing!
"See, the backlash is here now," Brunhilde finally revealed a sorrowful expression.

“Look, isn’t this a division?” Amida said with the expression of a researcher.

Shirley remained huddled in the grass, her entire body gradually shrinking into the soil, as if preparing to disguise herself as a millipede.

"Girls, this is the curse of the nine rings. You will understand it sooner or later," Emperor Elither said.

Feifei shrugged: "Perhaps. Perhaps we will understand you one day. But, Your Majesty, you will never see that day."

The emperor's spirit form flickered with light and shadow, his tone carrying a hint of praise: "Very good, Miss Fina, this is precisely why I invited you! If I fail, the script will continue as planned. I am not a god, but this is all part of the plan."

Brunhilde felt that His Majesty was trying to save face, so his expression became even more sorrowful.

“Breen, when you stand atop my corpse, gazing upon the sea of ​​stars I laid out for you, can you assume the eternal duty?”

As his words fell, on the screen, under the precise and ferocious attack of the Silent One, the behemoth let out an even more shrill soul shriek. On its massive body, a piece of flesh covered with twisted metal exploded, exposing a core that flickered with an ominous, eerie light, as if connected to another dimension.

As the dragon descended upon the palace, the emperor's spirit also rippled violently, as if in harmony with it.

He closed his eyes, seemingly quietly experiencing the resonance that was both painful and pleasurable.

He neither dodged nor avoided, allowing his granddaughter to pierce the core of the spirit once again with a blazing pillar of fire.

This time, however, the indestructible, brilliant light seemed to pass through a real illusion, without even causing a ripple like water mist, let alone the intense energy and information shocks of before.

"Our attack... is failing."

Almost simultaneously, the energy rays flicked from the fingertips of the alchemical war puppets seemed to disappear into deep space, failing to even blur the outline of the emperor's phantom.

The eldest daughter of the Berencaster family narrowed her eyes slightly: "He is breaking away from this dimension."

"And then what happens after you break free? You transfer to that monster?" Fifi asked. "Isn't that a form of corruption?"

"I don't know, perhaps it's the illusory realm itself?"

The emperor's spirit grew even more indistinct, his voice increasingly ethereal, as if echoing from another dimension: "The bridge is sturdy, the vessel is full. I come and go as I please! If you wish to challenge me, find me and kill me! Wahahahahahaha!"

Just as everyone was watching helplessly as the Emperor's spirit dissipated, Fei Fei heard Xiao Hui's voice: "It's not over yet. Okay, here's some bad news and some good news. Which do you want to hear?"

Feifei stood there expressionless, as if she was too angry to speak because the emperor had escaped.

Then, the robot lady, dressed in an unremarkable uniform of a community marshal, appeared out of the void like a ghost, passing through the fortress armor and the broken dome, and leisurely appeared in the garden.

This time, Feifei won't be the only one who gets to see her.

Brunhilde's eyes immediately lit up with wariness, but half a second later, her feminine alertness turned into a deeper scrutiny: "I've never heard of such a hidden master on Earth. Even though this is supposed to be my first time meeting you, I have this strange feeling that I've known you for a long time."

She pronounced "senior" very heavily, which showed that she was someone who could see through appearances to the essence of things.

Amida, on the other hand, clearly knew more, and smiled thoughtfully, "Indeed, I can sense a grander and more mysterious state of life. If I'm not mistaken... you must be quite old, right?"

Shirley remained hidden in the grass, once again silent and lifeless, without even a basic sense of presence. "You guys only noticed her age? But that's not important." Little Grey snorted irritably, then waved his hand dismissively: "Let's get to the bad news first. A high-intensity illusory corrosion phenomenon has appeared in the internal corridors of the Silent One, confirming the generation of multiple illusory entities. The nanomechanical suppression system has been activated, but the erosion rate is abnormal. It is speculated to be related to the energy radiation and spatial distortion of the target behemoth."

Feifei hesitated for a moment: "Fortunately, our marines haven't landed yet. Xiao Qing, Ina, and Colonel Walter are all here. With your full cooperation, we should be able to suppress the pollution, right?"

"If I say no, you'll definitely start laughing at me, right?" Little Grey chuckled.

“If you keep playing dumb, I’m going to start laughing at you right now, and I’ll make you laugh until you’re completely bloodied,” Fei Fei said.

Xiao Hui clicked her tongue in amazement: "What a fierce woman! But why has she never shown this side of herself in front of Yu Lian?"

Before Feifei erupted, she added, "All I can say is that I will do my best. However, this pollution will be galactic in scale, and if the source of the pollution is not addressed, it will eventually plunge the entire galaxy into considerable turmoil."

Brunhilde was startled and humbly asked, "So, you mean the capital is being corrupted by the Void Realm? And the source of this corruption is that monster?"

Little Grey nodded: "It is creating a rift between the two worlds, and it is constantly expanding. Virtual entities have also appeared inside the thirty-seven space cities closest to it, as well as inside the twelve Imperial warships. Including your flagship."

Brunhilde looked worriedly in the direction of the Rabbit, sincerely hoping that Sobek and his companions would be safe. She swore to the spirit of the universe that if this battle was successful, someone as capable as Sobek would definitely be put to great use.

However, Duke Gerberan is there. If that guy can't beat Lian Qing, surely he can beat a mere Void Realm Ghost?

However, it's hard to say about the other warships and space cities.

“They need reinforcements over there, they need psionicists,” Amida said. The lethality of ordinary weapons against quantum-conceptualized virtual entities is also quantum-based.

“I know,” Brunhilde nodded expressionlessly.

Amyda looked at the other person meaningfully: "I see, I understand."

"That's some kind of nonsense!" Brunhilde scoffed without a hint of curiosity.

"And then, of course, came the good news. Yu Lian is still alive," Xiao Hui said.

Feifei said irritably, "Can you tell me something I don't know?"

“Based on my calculations, he will definitely get away soon.” She suddenly stopped talking at this point.

Everyone present felt a sudden sense of oppression. On the walls of Dragon Palace, constructed of precious stone and metal, dark shadows, like oil, began to seep out, and faint, malicious whispers echoed in the air.

“Very well, there’s more than one source of pollution.” Yamida shrugged. “Your ancestors really had absolutely no affection for the Dragon Palace they’d lived in for centuries!”

“He wasn’t my ancestor, just a puppet infected by the illusory realm. The real His Majesty has already passed away. Waaaaah…” Brunhilde wiped away her tears. She was truly crying, and it didn’t seem like she was forcing it at all.

Feifei gave a thumbs up: "Great, I agree with that. I'll also try my best to persuade the fish to accept it."

“In this situation, I have a plan,” Little Gray said, glancing at the flowerbed. Hidden within the magnificent profusion of flowers, the swarm's ruler, disguised as an earthworm, shivered, a chill running down his spine.

Although she no longer has the ability to feel cold.

……

"If Master doesn't come up with a better plan soon, I'll be in a really awkward situation."

When the last young emperor was blasted into pieces by the force of atomic disintegration, Yu Lian felt no joy of victory. He slowly lowered his hand, exhaled a deep breath, and the destructive energy swirling around his fingertips quietly faded away.

He stood frozen in place, his brows furrowed into a knot. He had endured more than ten cuts, relying on his ethereal body and superhuman regeneration to finally revive himself, but he was far from perfect.

He should have blasted these human puppets into particles, not flesh and blood.

He should have attacked the emperor's soul directly along the trajectory of mind control the moment he broke them down into particles.

However, there was always a strange sensation when his attacks pierced through the flying fragments of flesh and blood.

As the lingering essence of the souls within these "young emperors" dissipates, it inexplicably carries an echo of information. This is an informational concept that structures the soul and thought, and also a mysterious concept that constructs the physical entity of the virtual realm.

Yu Lian looked around, gazing at the dissipating trajectories of the puppets in the void, sensing the subtle yet extremely unnatural information fluctuations, and painstakingly searched for their dissipation paths.

"Can this be considered the king of kings? It's clearly more slippery than a snake, no, more slippery than an eel!" he shouted, his voice echoing loudly in this desolate and turbulent realm.

Needless to say, the intention behind this provocation was too obvious, and it naturally received no response.

Thus, an indescribable sense of unease lingered in his heart, refusing to dissipate for a long time.

Yu Lian carefully recalled every detail of the fierce battle just now. Each of these puppets reminded him of his battles with the most outstanding and experienced knights in his previous life.

Each of them possessed power and skill cultivated to the extreme, their attacks were fierce yet exquisitely skillful and adaptable.

Yu Lian originally thought that perhaps his enemies were just puppets, and that fighting them was like fighting against robots with predetermined programs.

However, this is not the case.

Although they showed no emotion, their skills were incredibly vibrant.

More importantly, in every clash, in every energy collision, the opponent seemed to be breaking down and recording his reactions.

This feeling was exceptionally clear.

They didn't seem like enemies that needed to be eliminated; they were more like a testing tool equipped with the most sophisticated recording instruments.

They are recording the movement of every cell, every energy pulse.

So that's how it is. Is this the source of information flow?
“If my master and I hadn’t come, they would have fought each other anyway, wouldn’t they?” Yu Lian asked loudly.

Naturally, there was still no response.

Nevertheless, he was almost certain of his guess. Just as he was about to say something more, he suddenly saw more emperors emerging from the Sword Shadow Forest on the horizon.

This time, there were over a hundred people. They were still expressionless puppets, seemingly devoid of emotion, yet they still exuded a murderous aura, as if they were survivors of countless battles.

"That's not fair!" Yu Lian shouted. "When you were besieging Master earlier, you at least gave him ten minutes of rest, and there weren't this many of you! Master, we're about to lose control!"

Fortunately, this time, he finally received a response from Master Lan, who was pretending to be deep in thought.

"Look, my disciple, when it really matters, you still have to rely on your master! Oh, hahahaha!"